Thanks to all about the Perigee explanations, and thanks to the Greeks too,
my favourites in History. I just came across yesterday that the word Museum
comes from ancient greek meaning the place were the Muse lives, and that's
quite good working in Museums!!
Roser
2011/3/20 Roger Bailey
Hello Roderick,
The sundial maker is jean-Michel Ansel and as Willy said, he doesn't like
astrology and it's the reason why he prefered these astronomical references,
even if it's more difficult to explain.
The book is made out of high quality concrete. Metallical lines are directly
included
Hello Roderick all,
The Dutch Sundial Society had its quarterly meeting last Saturday in
Utrecht. A new member, Karin ten Kleij, pointed out some Sicily dials
she had found in the internet, which are adorned with the 13
constellations. An intriguing coincidence!
In these cases the
I kinda approve the choice for constellations, as you can use the sundial
also as a moondial (with a corrective table for the age of moon, and in
order to know the hours by night only approximately) and, by marking the
shadow cast by the moon on the dial, you could esteem in what constellation
the
Another deficiency that marred the 'Book of Tme Sundial' in the sundial park of
Genk is that one half of the datelines are usable only in the morning, the
other half only in the afternoon.
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundials in the province of
I don't have any special knowledge of the Italian language, but as my mother
language, Portuguese, has some likeliness to it and I know a little Latin,
here I offfer my tentative translation:
Horizontal sundial with a polar triangular style, made by the students of
the Scuola Media Galilei di
Is the Prague clock of the same design as the one in Bern? See e.g.
http://starswebworx.lc-stars.com/swiss_photo/Bern.htm (scroll down a
bit).
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Jan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:15, James E. Morrison
janus.astrol...@verizon.net wrote:
Perhaps some background would be useful to those on the list
